Ted Lasso and Philosophy

MARYBETH BAGGETT is Professor of English at Houston Christian University. She is co-author of Telling Tales: Intimations of the Sacred in Popular Culture and The Morals of the Story: Good News about a Good God, which won Christianity Today's 2019 Award of Merit for Apologetics and Evangelism.DAVID BAGGETT is Professor of Philosophy at Houston Christian University and Director of the Center for the Foundations of Ethics. He's the author or editor of fifteen books, including a tetralogy on the moral argument for God's existence.

• A Taste of Athens ixPart I Do the Right-est Thing 11 On the Pitch with Saint Augustine 3Sean Strehlow2 Isaac Finds His Flow 13Elizabeth Schiltz3 Ted Talk, Precursive Faith, and the Ethics of Belief 24David Baggett4 Is Ted an Egoist? 35Robert Begley and Carrie-Ann BiondiPart II The Best Versions of Ourselves 455 Fear's a Lot Like Underwear 47Corey Latta6 Lassoing Aristotle 56Joseph Forte7 Ted Lasso's Personal Dilemma Squad 66R. Keith Loftin8 The Affable Gaffer 76Andy WiblePart III Man City 859 Poop in the Punchbowl 87Caleb McGee Husmann and Elizabeth Kusko10 Doing Masculinity Better 96Marcus Arvan11 Inverting the Gender Pyramid 105Willie Young12 Who Is Right, Ted or Beard? 116Michael W. AustinPart IV Mostly Football Is Life 12513 Amplifying Emotion and Warmth at Richmond 127Lance Belluomini14 Is This Indeed All a Simulation? 140Andrew Zimmerman Jones15 Kansas City Candide Meets Compassionate Camus 150Kimberly Blessing16 Ted's Chestertonian Optimism 162Austin M. FreemanPart V Smells Like Potential 17117 What To Do with Tough Cookies 173David Baggett and Marybeth Baggett18 Stoic Bossgirl 182Elizabeth Quinn19 Why a Headbutt Might Have Hurt Nate Less 192Georgina Mills20 Is Rupert Beyond Redemption? 201Marybeth BaggettBeard's Bookshelf 212Marybeth BaggettStarting Lineup 217Index 222